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''' Home Box Office''' ('''HBO''') is an American [[pay television]] network, which is the flagship property of namesake parent-subsidiary [[Home Box Office, Inc.]], itself a unit owned by [[Warner Bros. Discovery]]. The overall Home Box Office business unit is based at Warner Bros. Discovery's corporate headquarters inside [[30 Hudson Yards]] in [[Manhattan]]. Programming featured on the network consists primarily of theatrically released [[feature film|motion pictures]] and [[Original programming|original]] television programs as well as made-for-cable movies, documentaries, occasional comedy, and concert [[television special|specials]], and periodic [[Interstitial television show|interstitial programs]] (consisting of short films and [[making-of]] documentaries).

HBO is the oldest subscription television service in the United States still in operation, as well as the country's first national and regional [[Cable television in the United States|cable-originated]] television network (national or regional).<ref>{{Cite news |last=Brandon |first=Elissaveta M. |date=May 26, 2023 |title=What was HBO Max thinking? 3 experts decode the rebrand blunder of the year |work=[[Fast Company]] |url=https://www.fastcompany.com/90901410/what-was-hbo-max-thinking-three-branding-experts-decode-the-rebrand-blunder-of-the-year |url-status=live |access-date=October 23, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230601011419/https://www.fastcompany.com/90901410/what-was-hbo-max-thinking-three-branding-experts-decode-the-rebrand-blunder-of-the-year |archive-date=June 1, 2023}}</ref> HBO pioneered modern pay television upon its launch on November 8, 1972: it was the first television service to be directly transmitted and distributed to individual cable television systems, and was the conceptual blueprint for the "premium channel", pay television services sold to subscribers for an extra monthly fee that do not accept [[television advertisement|traditional advertising]] and present their programming without [[expurgation|editing for objectionable material]]. It eventually became the first television channel in the world to begin transmitting via [[communications satellite|satellite]]—expanding the growing regional pay service, originally available to cable and [[Multichannel Multipoint Distribution Service|multipoint distribution service (MDS)]] providers in the northern [[Mid-Atlantic (United States)|Mid-Atlantic]] and southern [[New England]], into a national television network—in September 1975, and, alongside sister channel [[Cinemax]], was among the first two American pay television services to offer complimentary [[Multiplex (television)|multiplexed channels]] in August 1991.

The network operates seven 24-hour, linear multiplex channels as well as a traditional subscription [[video on demand]] platform (HBO On Demand) and its content is the centerpiece of [[Max (streaming service)|Max]] (previously HBO Max from 2020 to 2023), an expanded streaming platform operated separately from but sharing management with Home Box Office, Inc., which also includes original programming produced exclusively for the service and content from other Warner Bros. Discovery properties. Livestreams of the network's linear [[East Coast of the United States|East]] and [[West Coast of the United States|West Coast]] feeds are not presently accessible on the Max streaming app, but are available via its [[a la carte pay television|a la carte]] add-ons sold through [[Amazon Prime Video#Amazon Channels|Prime Video Channels]], [[YouTube|YouTube Primetime Channels]] and virtual pay television providers [[Hulu]] and [[YouTube TV]] (both of which sell their HBO/Max add-ons independently of their respective live TV tiers).<ref>{{cite web|title=Hulu Adds HBO In Time For 'Game Of Thrones Season 7 Premiere |url=https://deadline.com/2017/07/hulu-adds-hbo-game-of-thrones-season-7-premiere-cinemax-streaming-1202124374/|author=Denise Petski|website=[[Deadline Hollywood]]|publisher=[[Penske Media Corporation]]|date=July 6, 2017|access-date=November 2, 2022|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200801214241/https://deadline.com/2017/07/hulu-adds-hbo-game-of-thrones-season-7-premiere-cinemax-streaming-1202124374/|archive-date=August 1, 2020}}</ref><ref>{{cite web|title=You can now buy some YouTube TV add-ons without the $65 base plan|url=https://www.engadget.com/youtube-tv-add-on-channel-subscriptions-172712214.html|author=Kris Holt|website=[[Engadget]]|date=September 30, 2022|access-date=November 2, 2022}}</ref>